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Cyprus: president warns against bureaucratic delays to civil service reforms

President Nicos Anastasiades has warned that he will not tolerate any delays to his civil service reform plan, in a policy statement delivered on 12 September. Cyprus aims to turn its civil service into a flexible and effective organisation, through restructuring operations, bolstering capacity for strategic planning, better use and education of human resources and improving relations between the state and public.

Greece is revamping its civil service as part of the austerity measures the country has been forced to adopt, including pay and pension cuts, in return for a massive bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.